Facilitation
Professional, independent facilitation
Whether you are bringing together a new collaboration or team, or agreeing the organisational design elements for a future restructure, sometimes independent professional facilitation helps.
We are there for you in those critical moments when all voices need to be heard and you need alignment and action. Our experienced senior facilitators help create safe spaces that allow difficult topics to be fully addressed.
As a part of this we can plan and facilitate specific meetings, such as project collaboration, transition planning, stakeholder negotiations and supplier networks.
I learned how much ground could be covered in one and a half days!
When you might use us
New Collaborations
Setting up a new collaboration, team or joint venture? We’ll help facilitate the joint purpose and behaviours and set up the group for success.
Democratic decisions
When a consensus needs to be reached, whether through a new organisation structure, the future of a project or similar, we’ll help.
Difficult conversations
For when you know you need to talk about that elephant in the room, but you’re not yet at mediation stage. Let’s talk it through.
Exploring possibilities
Whether creating a new future or exploring potential challenges, we’ll create the space for diverse thinkers to work together effectively.
The Process
Explore the outcome
Get clarity on history, outcomes and outputs
Discuss the “what ifs”
Set up for success and agree flexibility.
Agree the agenda
Check logistics and communications, and deliver!
Questions to ask
What should I look for from a professional facilitator?
Influence: A great facilitator has to understand and manage the influence they personally have in the room. We all come with pre-conceived ideas, biases and judgements as we are human after all, but to create a safe space to make the most of a group, a facilitator needs to know how to put these to one side.
Energy: Facilitation needs to play with the energy in the room. Knowing when to care enough to bite your tongue and let the conversation continue, and when to introduce a different activity or intervention is something that comes with reflection and experience.
Toolkit: A facilitator’s toolkit isn’t just pens, post-its and flipcharts (although of course these help), but theories, methods, techniques and phrases that help set the group up for success.
I love your facilitation style. – Morgan Sindall
Some Questions to consider:
Here are a selection of questions you might like to consider in advance of the session:
- What would be the very best outcome I could hope for from this session, and the minimum?
- What are the business objectives for this session?
- What is the situation today and what longer term changes are we aiming for?
- Which people do we need in the room and what do we need them to know in advance?
- What do I expect from the facilitator and what do I value most in having them here?
You always push us until we are absolutely certain of our thinking and position. – BECBC
Team Collaboration
We help develop project teams, through facilitating goal focus, team alignment, scope definition and LFE events to improve project performance.
When you are bringing together new project teams, or Joint Ventures, we’ll work with you to build on strengths and alignment to build true collaboration.
Agree Purpose
Clarity and alignment on goals, purpose, expectations
Social Capital
Build high value strategic relationships
Equip & inspire
Develop skills, confidence and behaviours
Targeted Support
Stakeholder engagement, coaching, communications, etc
Being based in the beautiful Lake District, we also love to use the outdoor spaces around us to help with accelerating teams. We are equally as at home on the water, on the hills, onsite or online. We’ll collaborate with you to make it safe yet challenging, depending on the current circumstances.
Thank you – you helped us build the leadership team that is working so well during this crisis.
Get in touch
To chat about facilitation to help collaborations and teams operate more effectively.